Open-source Telegram AI assistant project released
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Developer watscho posted an MIT-licensed open-source TypeScript Telegram AI assistant project on Hacker News. The assistant supports text and voice conversations, image analysis and editing, image generation, web search with sources, document Q&A, and provides projects, named sessions, explicitly saved memories, and persistent background tasks. Before use, you need Node.js 26.13+ (within Node 26), npm 11, a Telegram bot token, and an OpenAI project API key with billing enabled and model access permissions. The project only handles specified users in private chats, and voice replies are disabled by default.
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A private, MIT-licensed TypeScript Telegram assistant offering text and voice conversations, photo analysis and editing, image generation, web search with sources, document questions, projects, named conversations, explicit saved memory, usage controls, streaming replies and durable background jobs. It requires Node.js 26.13+, npm 11, a Telegram bot token and an OpenAI project API key, with FFmpeg/libopus needed only for outgoing voice messages. State is stored locally in SQLite, and the README details commands, limits, data handling and a unit-test suite with a 100% coverage gate.
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